RFC 2834 (rfc2834) - Page 1 of 34
ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800
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Network Working Group J.-M. Pittet
Request for Comments: 2834 Silicon Graphics Inc.
Obsoletes: 1374 May 2000
Category: Standards Track
ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies a method for resolving IP addresses to ANSI
High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) hardware addresses and
for emulating IP broadcast in a logical IP subnet (LIS) as a direct
extension of HARP. This memo defines a HARP that will interoperate
between HIPPI-800 and HIPPI-6400 (also known as Gigabyte System
Network, GSN). This document (when combined with RFC-2067 "IP over
HIPPI") obsoletes RFC-1374.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1 Global Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. IP Subnetwork Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2 HIPPI LIS Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. HIPPI Address Resolution Protocol - HARP . . . . . . . . 7
5.1 HARP Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1.1 Selecting the authoritative HARP service . . . 8
5.1.2 HARP registration phase . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.1.3 HARP operational phase . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2 HARP Client Operational Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3 Receiving Unknown HARP Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.4 HARP Server Operational Requirements . . . . . . . . 12
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